It's clear from this feature that The
Ticker has given countless students from
every major the chance to experience journalism
firsthand.
Through its
Journalism
Program, Baruch
College provides
opportunities for students who decide
to make journalism their major and
their life's work as well as those
who simply wish to hone their
research and writing skills or
become better-informed
members of society.

Baruch's Journalism
Program offers two specializations:
a journalism and creative writing specialization
and a business journalism specialization.
In both, students gain an understanding of the
critical role the press plays in a democratic society
and learn how to identify and create high-quality
journalism. Led by a faculty with a depth of knowledge
in urban affairs, business, arts and culture,
music and entertainment, publishing, politics, law
and ethics, science, and technology, the program is
one of the College's premier courses of study and
has been targeted for investment under the five-year
Strategic Plan. In the works are a new major with
strengthened core journalism requirements, additional
online journalism education, a wider
range of electives, and new faculty hires.
The Journalism Program publishes
the award-winning Dollars & $ense magazine, which is written, edited, and
designed by students in collaboration with
journalism and design faculty. The program is
further enriched by the Sidney Harman Writer-in-
Residence Program, which brings well-known journalists
and authors to Baruch each semester to
offer seminars and workshops for gifted student
writers and to conduct public readings. The
Harman Program awards writing prizes each
semester to three students and each fall sponsors
an internship at Poets & Writers magazine.
Additionally, the Journalism Program offers
internships that enable students to gain
research, reporting, and writing experience
and awards grants for annual summer travel
internships that allow students to work in
news organizations outside of the U.S.

External funding sources help support a
variety of these initiatives, from public events
and lectures, to technology upgrades, to faculty
hiring, to student scholarships and awards. The
Journalism Program is also currently seeking
donors to name its two laboratories and Dollars & $ense suite.